The good: I was really nervous coming into this tourney because both Montana and Houston looked really good (to me) on paper and I liked their resumes. Given the late starts and time off I was really nervous about our energy level. I believe we had the toughest potential first two games for a 3 seed, but I can't confirm that with data. So far the team has met my expectations given the circumstances.

Bad: I picked TXAM to beat NC because they looked great early in the season and seemed to be back to that level of play. NC had been inconsistant all year and who knows which team would show up. The SEC was good this year and TXAM didn't have a bad loss. They had a bad stretch, but I believe they were missing key players over that span.

This will be a tough game. TXAM may have a difficult time with our spacing and could get frustrated like Purdue did a few weeks ago. They will try to get Mo and Teske in early foul trouble.

Two monster classes in a row and a poor season on the field combined to make this a less than stellar recruiting year. How can you really tell these kids they will "play early" and we were average because of "youth"?

However, we should still end up with a top 15 class, top 3-4 in the conferance. There will be a LOT of redshirts next year.

This season sucked, but folks need to chill. We had the youngest team in the country, '15 recruiting was a transition cycle and we saw the effects of it this season. We all knew Ulizio starting spoke volumes about the OL. Starting QB went down early, etc. I predicted 4-5 losses before the season began, knew it was a rebuilding year and many of you predicted the same thing.

Next years offense will be much better from a talent perspective.

OL: Bredeson-Filiaga-Ruiz-Onwenu-Hudson

Four top 100 recruits and a guy at right tackle that has had a lot of recent practice hype. Maybe it's better, but I don't think worse.